High SocietyRijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Dates | 8 Mar-3 JuneBest in show | Rembrandt Rembrandt’s wedding portraits of Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit – his only life-size, standing, full-length portraits – were jointly purchased by theRijksmuseum and the Louvre for €160m in 2016, and this is the first chance to see them – in their full glory after restoration. They are joined by portraits of society figures over four centuries by masters including Cranach the Elder, Veronese, Velázquez, Gainsborough, Reynolds, Sargent and Manet. • €17.50, 9am-5pm daily, rijksmuseum.nl

Stay at the Art’otel Amsterdam (doubles from €175), which has artists’ studios, a two-storey “art curtain” displaying video art, an art-centred library and a gallery.

Upcoming: Grayson PerryKiasma, Helsinki

Dates | 13 April-2 SepBest in show | Kenilworth AM1 If you missed the Grayson Perry exhibition at the Serpentine in London last year, head to Kiasma, Finland’s leading contemporary art gallery, for a retrospective this spring/summer. The show includes Perry’s witty ceramics, sculptures, tapestries and dresses, tackling gender, identity, class and religion. The exhibition then moves to the revamped 11 Conti Museum at the Monnaie de Paris (from 19 Oct-3 Feb). • €14, free on first Friday of each month, opening hours vary, closed Mondays, kiasma.fi

Stayat the new Hotel St George (doubles from €179 room-only), which opens on 1 April. It features a giant white dragon by Ai Weiwei in the lobby, while guests get 25% off at Helsinki’s museums with the hotel’s art card.

Picasso 1932

Tate Modern, London

Dates | Until 9 SepBest in show | Marie-Thérèse Walter nudes Book ahead and expect queues for 1932 – Love, Fame, Tragedy. Tate Modern’s first solo Picasso exhibition is a month-by-month journey through the artist’s prolific “year of wonders”. The 100-plus works include Girl Before a Mirror, which seldom leaves New York’s MoMA, and The Dream, which has never been shown in the UK before. It also reunites three reclining nudes – of his lover Marie-Thérèse Walter – for the first time in 85 years. •£22, 10am-6pm, 10pm Fridays and Saturdays, tate.org.uk

Stay at Green Rooms (dorms from £24, doubles from £89) in Wood Green, north London, a social enterprise with discounted rooms for artists, plus exhibitions, live music and comedy nights.

Delacroix (1798-1863)The Louvre, Paris

Dates | 29 March-23 JulyBest in show | Liberty Leading the People In its first Eugène Delacroix retrospective since 1963, the Louvre is showing 180 artworks by the French romanticist. The exhibition brings together the gallery’s masterpieces – Liberty Leading the People, The Massacre at Chios, Women of Algiers – with loans from the National Gallery in London, the Met in New York and the National Gallery of Canada.• €15, 9am-6pm, 9.45pm Wednesdays & Fridays, closed Tuesdays, louvre.fr

Stayat the Drawing Hotel (doubles from €154), practically next door; each floor is designed by a different artist, there is an “art concierge”, an exhibition space and art materials for sale in the lobby.

Dates | 7 July-14 OctBest in show | Self Portrait, aged 51 This exhibition examines Britain’s Discovery of the Master, which reached its climax in the late 18th century. It brings together Rembrandts from around the UK – Belshazzar’s Feast from the National Gallery in London, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man from the Walker Gallery in Liverpool – and overseas. It also showcases work from painters inspired by the Dutch master, from William Hogarth to Frank Auerbach. • £13.50, 10am-5pm, 7pm Thursdays, nationalgalleries.org

Stayat24 Royal Terrace (doubles from £89 B&B), a 16-room boutique hotel in a Georgian townhouse, displaying the owner’s collection of modern art, including work by Terry Frost and John Bratby.

Alberto GiacomettiGuggenheim Bilbao

Dates | 19 Oct-24 Feb 2019Best in show | Femmes de Venise If you missed the retrospectives at Guggenheim New York and Tate Modern London, here’s your chance to catch the work of one of Switzerland’s most famous artists at the Guggenheim Bilbao. This new exhibition of the man Jean Paul Sartre called “the perfect existentialist artist” covers his life’s sculptures and paintings, from the cubist and surrealist period up to his death in the mid-1960s. •€16, €9 concessions, under 12 free; Tuesday to Sunday, 10am-8pm, guggenheim-bilbao.eus

Stay at the Gran Hotel Domine (from €106 B&B) right opposite the Guggenheim. It makes a suitably arty base filled with modern art and striking sculpture and furniture.

WanderlustAlte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Dates | 10 May-16 SepBest in show | Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich Wandering – in nature, over the Alps, through life – is celebrated in this inspirational exhibition. Journeys on foot were a key subject in 19th-century European art, and are celebrated here in 100 artworks by Caspar David Friedrich, Norway’s Johan Christian Dahl, Switzerland’s Ferdinand Hodler, Paul Gauguin, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and others. Pack your hiking boots in case you get the bug. • €12, 10am-6pm, 8pm Thursdays, closed Mondays, smb.museum

Stayat the Arte Luise (doubles from €88), where there is sculpture in the lobby, philosophy on the stairs and the 50 rooms have been designed by different artists.